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Originally Posted by Frost King
And if he loses, after winning the Triple Crown against run of the mill older horses his value will go down. What people fail to realize, you could have the fastest donkey in the world. That is faster than any thoroughbred, you would still not breed to the donkey. Breeding is about percentages. The chance that California Chrome has these genes out of his parents is one in one million chance, that everything aligned itself right up. Just look at Empire Maker, he was a stallion prospect before he was even weaned because of his dam, and the siblings he has. California Chrome, could be the breeding version of the Green Monkey. Which big farm, in today's economy is going to risk, that kind of money on a horse that has outlier genes, to pass on? It is a nice story, not matter how you dress the pig, it is still a pig.
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He is the first foal out of a Not For Love mare, and by a stallion that's never seen quality breeding stock and still manages to throw decent cal-breds.
So the argument about percentages goes out the window when you peel it back, doesn't it?
I agree with IC that he is really the tallest pigmy of this crop, but I don't necessarily buy the argument that he won't be successful stallion because he doesn't possess commercial bloodlines.